I'm a new DM, like brand new never done this before, and I want to run an Eberron campaign. I was reading through the Forgotten Relics in the Eberron: Rising from the Last War book, and I noticed something I don't know how to deal with.
On page 272 of RftLW the boss of the adventure is Garra. Garra is described as "An 8 foot tall, muscular woman" and a half-ogre. Half-ogre is in bold so we flip open our MM, a Half-ogre is a large creature. It's occupies a 2x2 grid space. That's fine.
This encounter takes place on a Lighting Rail. We have a map on page 236 of RftLW. The first class cabin Garra is found in is 10x20 feet. With 2 5 foot wide windows. How is she supposed to fit in a room that small, and move through the window to get on the roof, as she is described doing? How did she fit through the 5 foot wide hall to get to her room with a 5 foot door?
Am I the only one thinking the sizes don't mesh? Am I the only one missing something? I've tried searching this online and I didn't find anything. This is going to be my first time DMing, and I definitely haven't read everything. Please help?
I'm a new DM, like brand new never done this before, and I want to run an Eberron campaign. I was reading through the Forgotten Relics in the Eberron: Rising from the Last War book, and I noticed something I don't know how to deal with.
On page 272 of RftLW the boss of the adventure is Garra. Garra is described as "An 8 foot tall, muscular woman" and a half-ogre. Half-ogre is in bold so we flip open our MM, a Half-ogre is a large creature. It's occupies a 2x2 grid space. That's fine.
This encounter takes place on a Lighting Rail. We have a map on page 236 of RftLW. The first class cabin Garra is found in is 10x20 feet. With 2 5 foot wide windows. How is she supposed to fit in a room that small, and move through the window to get on the roof, as she is described doing? How did she fit through the 5 foot wide hall to get to her room with a 5 foot door?
Am I the only one thinking the sizes don't mesh? Am I the only one missing something? I've tried searching this online and I didn't find anything. This is going to be my first time DMing, and I definitely haven't read everything. Please help?
As a human being I am considered a Medium creature and therefore RAW occupy a 5’ cube. The door to my bathroom is only 3’ wide. Ho do I fit in the bathroom to pee? Simple, I am not actually 5’ wide. The grid space that a creature occupies represents its effective fighting space. In a fight, I probably move around in a 5’ space as I duck, dodge, weave, strike, recover, parry, riposte, etc... bit I still fit through a door.
A large creature doesn’t fill a 10’x10’x10’ cube (in this case probably much closer to a 5’ wide X 8’ tall cylinder), but it probably does take up about a 8’-10’ area while it is fighting.
This guy is 7’ tall and almost 400lbs. I would say he counts as a “Large Creature,” he would still fit in my bathroom....
No, it’s a legitimate question. Just remember that the rules represent an abstraction of reality, not reality itself.
A 1st level fighter doesn’t only swing their sword 1ce every 6seconds, # of Attacks doesn’t represent how many exact swings, but an abstraction of the character’s overall combat effectiveness.
HP doesn’t represent true health, but an abstraction of how much fight the character still has in them.
Size, (and pretty much everything else) in D&D is the same way.
My interpretation of size is the amount of space a creature can take up without a creature being able to move physically into them. An example would be a a rogue sneaking forward across the room trying to steal something on the other side of a half-ogre in the middle of the room. They run up to the half-ogre's left, trying to get past the half-ogre, because the room is 10 feet wide, and the half ogre only takes up about 4 feet of the room, you would expect the human rogue could get across, but no, the half-ogre jumps in front of the rogue, blocking their path, and keeping them from getting to the other side of them.
Size doesn't really determine how wide the character is, a hill giant isn't a 20 ft cube of fatty flesh, it is more like a guideline on how creatures can move in their turn or someone else's without actually using any movement to do so.
Does this make sense? I hope it does.
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I'm a new DM, like brand new never done this before, and I want to run an Eberron campaign. I was reading through the Forgotten Relics in the Eberron: Rising from the Last War book, and I noticed something I don't know how to deal with.
On page 272 of RftLW the boss of the adventure is Garra. Garra is described as "An 8 foot tall, muscular woman" and a half-ogre. Half-ogre is in bold so we flip open our MM, a Half-ogre is a large creature. It's occupies a 2x2 grid space. That's fine.
This encounter takes place on a Lighting Rail. We have a map on page 236 of RftLW. The first class cabin Garra is found in is 10x20 feet. With 2 5 foot wide windows. How is she supposed to fit in a room that small, and move through the window to get on the roof, as she is described doing? How did she fit through the 5 foot wide hall to get to her room with a 5 foot door?
Am I the only one thinking the sizes don't mesh? Am I the only one missing something? I've tried searching this online and I didn't find anything. This is going to be my first time DMing, and I definitely haven't read everything. Please help?
As a human being I am considered a Medium creature and therefore RAW occupy a 5’ cube. The door to my bathroom is only 3’ wide. Ho do I fit in the bathroom to pee? Simple, I am not actually 5’ wide. The grid space that a creature occupies represents its effective fighting space. In a fight, I probably move around in a 5’ space as I duck, dodge, weave, strike, recover, parry, riposte, etc... bit I still fit through a door.
A large creature doesn’t fill a 10’x10’x10’ cube (in this case probably much closer to a 5’ wide X 8’ tall cylinder), but it probably does take up about a 8’-10’ area while it is fighting.
This guy is 7’ tall and almost 400lbs. I would say he counts as a “Large Creature,” he would still fit in my bathroom....
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In other words, I'm thinking too much and should just go with it.
No, it’s a legitimate question. Just remember that the rules represent an abstraction of reality, not reality itself.
A 1st level fighter doesn’t only swing their sword 1ce every 6seconds, # of Attacks doesn’t represent how many exact swings, but an abstraction of the character’s overall combat effectiveness.
HP doesn’t represent true health, but an abstraction of how much fight the character still has in them.
Size, (and pretty much everything else) in D&D is the same way.
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My interpretation of size is the amount of space a creature can take up without a creature being able to move physically into them. An example would be a a rogue sneaking forward across the room trying to steal something on the other side of a half-ogre in the middle of the room. They run up to the half-ogre's left, trying to get past the half-ogre, because the room is 10 feet wide, and the half ogre only takes up about 4 feet of the room, you would expect the human rogue could get across, but no, the half-ogre jumps in front of the rogue, blocking their path, and keeping them from getting to the other side of them.
Size doesn't really determine how wide the character is, a hill giant isn't a 20 ft cube of fatty flesh, it is more like a guideline on how creatures can move in their turn or someone else's without actually using any movement to do so.
Does this make sense? I hope it does.
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There are also squeezing rules in the PHB that allow for creatures that are 'too big' to move through smaller spaces.